At the 49th Cannes Film Festival, Kaizi Ge expressed high hopes for his "Wind and Moon", but he was very disappointed.
Kaizi didn't know at this moment that "Farewell My Concubine" was the pinnacle of his life, and he lived his life with this movie in the second half of his life.
The box office of "Feng Yue" was very bad after its release, with a box office of only HK$2.3 million, breaking through the ranking of Zhang Guorong's superstar.
Zhang Guorong never acted in a box office movie again. Except for "New Shanghai Bund" that worked with Liu Hua, "Golden Branches and Jade Leaf 2" co-starred by Anita Yuen has exceeded 20 million, and other movies have exceeded 10 million. It's hard.
Yang Ye suspected that Zhang Guorong later chose to commit suicide, and his career was also one of the causes.
Zhang Guorong of this time and space suffered a greater blow to the original time and space in "Wind and Moon".
Because Yang Ye knew that after Brother Kaizi had filmed "Farewell My Concubine", he was so swollen that he couldn't listen to anyone's opinions, so he asked Xu Feng to terminate his cooperation with Brother Kaizi.
Yang Ye is the guiding light of the Chinese film industry. Others will be cautious when he refuses to vote for movies.
"Thunder Fire" is a lesson from the past. With Chen Long's ability, he can even lose money, let alone others.
So, Brother Kaizi was surprised to find that he, the newly released Palme d'Or, could not find an investment.
Fortunately, after filming "Farewell My Concubine", Zhang Guorong's trust in Kaizi reached an unparalleled level.
He also values friendship and saw that Kaizi Ge could not invest, so he took the initiative to help him with activities and gained 20 million yuan from Huang Baiming.
But after half of the filming, there was not enough money, so he made money everywhere. In the end, Zhang Guorong paid out part of it and counted it as an investment before finishing the film.
Why does an art film like "Feng Yue" cost so much?
Because Brother Kaizi has a special habit of making movies.
When ordinary directors film, the shooting order is messy.
The crew will first set the divisions, which scenes need to be filmed in one division, which props are prepared, and which actors are used. After all, one division will be filmed in one division.
If some actors have a tight schedule and fewer scenes, the crew will summarize their scenes and finish them in a few days.
The advantage of shooting in this way is that it can save a lot of time and a lot of expenses.
But Kaizi's movies are filmed smoothly, and he shoots down one scene after another according to the order of the plot development.
The advantage of filming like this is that the actors will act a story from beginning to end, gradually enter the plot, and be able to better integrate into the role.
The disadvantages are obvious. The shooting time will be lengthened, the set scenes need to be retained all the time, and the actors also need to follow the group all the time, and the shooting cost will increase exponentially.
So, Brother Kaizi's movies were all big productions, and later he even made the operation of making a movie and building a city.
According to his approach, there should be no drama to shoot.
But he caught up with the era of China's economic booming and turned the film business into a local business.
That little money lost in the movie is nothing at all.
The box office of "Feng Yue" was so popular, and it was also a clean sheet in all major awards, which means that overseas copyrights cannot be sold at a price, and all investments of tens of millions were wasted.
In fact, "Feng Yue" is not a bad movie, it has many advantages.
It continues Kaizi Ge's image style, has a very good grasp of light and color, and conveys an extremely beautiful, artistic and visual enjoyment to the audience.
The performances of Zhang Guorong, Gong Li, He Saifei and Zhou Xun are all remarkable, and a few moments of gaze are enough to make people intoxicated.
But Kaizi's pursuit of stylization is too much, and he deliberately reduces his lines to let actors communicate with their eyes.
The audience was confused when they saw it. If you don’t fucking talk, you will have a ghost if you don’t miss it.
Kaizi Ge pursues a very high-level aesthetic, not only in image style, but also in literature.
To give a simple example, which one is the most awesome word under the word "Nian Nujiao"?
Ordinary people's answers are mostly Su Dongpo's "The river flows eastward, the waves wash away, and the eternal heroes..."
However, those who have studied Song Ci probably say it is Zhang Xiaoxiang's "The green grass in Dongting is approaching Mid-Autumn Festival, and there is no charm at all..."
In other words, professional aesthetics and public aesthetics are often contrary to each other.
Ordinary people pursue ups and downs when reading novels, and they are all kinds of exciting things.
But the novels that professionals praise are "Remembrance of the Years" and "Ulysses".
The plot or something is no longer important.
The top novelists are all weakening the plot. Brother Kaizi feels that as the top director, it is inevitable that he will weaken the plot.
But novels can be created independently by a writer, except for his own time, and the investment cost is zero.
If readers don't like it, they just don't read it, and there is no need to pay any cost.
Movies have industrial attributes and require huge investment. After the film is completed, the audience needs to buy tickets to pay.
My grandpa spent money and bought a ticket, so you just walk on the horse and show me this? Who are you scolding if you don’t? Who will fail if you don’t fail?
...
Zhang Guorong felt a little complicated when he saw Yang Ye.
Zhang Guorong believed that he had a good relationship with Yang Ye. When Yang Ye refused to join Kaizi Ge's new film, he volunteered to do peace.
But Yang Ye did not give him face, because friendship is friendship and business is business.
Zhang Guorong asked Yang Ye: "Why did you refuse to invest in a new film directed by Brother Kai?"
Yang Ye replied: "He has already floated. If he can't sink, he will never be able to make a commendable movie in his life. I can't waste money."
Zhang Guorong doesn't believe in evil, he and Kai Brother Zi has been with him and thinks that Brother Kaizi is talented, so how could he never make a commendable movie again?
Zhang Guorong's personality is prone to extremes, so he turned around and went to help Kaizi Gela invest, and in the end he even paid millions to pay for work.
But now, everything was as Yang Ye expected.
Even if Brother Kaizi was holding his energy, he had to shoot a classic work that would make Yang Ye's face turn, and in the end he only made a mediocre work.
Not only did the box office fail, the awards were not won, but the reviews from the film critics were also very average.
Zhang Guo couldn't help asking Yang Ye: "You are really reincarnated by Ziweixing."
Yang Ye shook his head: "Stop coming, I don't believe these things."
Yang Ye shook his head: "Stop coming, I don't believe these." "Then why are you so accurate?" "One of reading the script, two of looking at the person, and one comprehensive analysis, the result is almost always the same."
"Okay, you really deserve to be Dongfang Bubai!"
"Dongfang Bubai is not a joke. I am a good person. Ye Yu Ten Girls is no problem."
" What you said, Qingxia didn't chirp at all."
"Uh..." Yang Ye was speechless for a moment.
Zhang Guorong laughed when he saw Yang Ye being defeated.
Yang Ye asked casually, "What did you do after you return to Hong Kong?"
Zhang Guorong said with a frown: "Help promote "New Shanghai Bund", and then go to Buenos Aires, Argentina to film."< "New Shanghai Bund" is a movie starring Zhang Guorong, Liu Hua and Ning Jing.
Zhang Guorong plays Xu Wenqiang, Liu Hua plays Ding Li, and Ning Jing plays Feng Chengcheng. The box office of this movie is good, with over 20 million in the country.
Yang Ye didn't take it seriously, and was more interested in his trip to Buenos Aires. He asked, "What movie is going so far?"
"Wang Kar-wai told me it was a police-gangster gunfighting movie. I played a killer who went to Argentina to find his father."
Yang Ye's brow frowned because Wong Kar-wai lied to Zhang Guorong and Liang Caowei. .
He told Zhang Guorong that he would make a gunfight film, and Zhang Guorong played a killer.
I also told Liang Caowei that he wanted to make a detective film, and Liang Caowei played a detective.
The two arrived in Argentina and when they were reconciled, it was not the case. Wong Kar-wai was going to shoot "Spring Light", which is a gay movie.
Wong Kar-wai said there was no excessive shot, so the two of them gritted their teeth and took pictures.
After filming for a few days, they were asked to film a kissing scene.
After filming for a few more days, they were asked to shoot a bed scene and they had to take off their clothes...
Step by step, they tricked the two of them.
"Spring Light" itself is a classic work in Chinese-language movies, but this movie almost killed Zhang Guorong. Zhang Guorong was infected with the virus in Argentina and had diarrhea every day. She was worse than death. She almost hanged up and called Hong Kong to ask someone to arrange her funeral.
When "Spring Light" was released, Wong Kar-wai used Zhang Guorong's sexual orientation to promote the movie in order to get more box office.
After Zhang Guorong was nominated for the Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor, he went to Taiwan to attend the award ceremony. He was pointed at by the staff behind his back, which made him very upset.
A series of incidents led to a quarrel between Zhang Guorong and Wong Kar-wai, and the two never cooperated again.
When Yang Ye frowned and said nothing, Zhang Guorong asked, "What's wrong?"
Yang Ye was considering whether to stop Zhang Guorong from making this movie.
Yang Ye traveled to this time and space and met many characters who could only be seen in movies in his previous lives.
Chen Long, Zhang Guorong, Zhang Manyu, Liu Hua... are all good friends.
Lin Qingxia, Guan Zhilin, Wang Zuxian, Zhou Huimin... are all his beloved women.
They surround Yang Ye, all of them were a group of flesh and blood, cute people.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
Yang Ye changed a lot of things and also prevented some tragedies from happening.
He saved Gu Long and Huang Jiaju, but he didn't know how to change Zhang Guorong's fate.
Although he did some things quietly, Zhang Guorong's life was smoother.
But the smoother your life is, the more extreme your life is.
He didn't know whether that leap would happen.
Finally, Yang Ye-wen said, "Wang Kar-wai didn't tell you, is he going to make a gay movie?"
"Ah?" Zhang Guorong was stunned: "How did you know that ? ”
“There are only a lot of Hong Kong entertainment circles, and it is not uncommon for a little bit of turbulent news to reach my ears.”
“Okay! ”
Zhang Guorong didn't mind making gay movies, but he minded Wong Kar-wai lied to him.
"I will confront him when I go back, um... I won't tell him, it was you who revealed it."
Yang Ye doesn't care: "Tell me, I don't care, he doesn't care, too Can't do anything to me."
"That's true, who can afford to mess with you."
"You want to make a police and gangster movie, how about we collaborate on one?"
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Zhang Guorong was happy: "Are you finally going to come to me for a film?"
Yang Ye sighed and said to himself, I am really worried about you guys.
He originally planned to stop appearing after filming the "Matrix Trilogy".
After filming for so many years, although he loves it, he is a little tired, and he doesn't want to keep joking on the big screen.
Next he plans to compete for the director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
With the plan in his mind, I believe no one can compete with him.
Then he retires gloriously, with a beautiful wife and concubine, and his children accompany him and enjoy his life.
But in order to promote Liu Yifei, he decided to make a movie "Born for a Couple" for her.
There is also the magical adaptation of "Harry Potter" "Free Journey". The original character of Hermione is naturally Liu Yifei.
Now, in order to help Zhang Guorong, I will add another one.
Damn, this is really a sow.
When will it be?
Well, this is the last one, and I will never add it.
Yang Ye said: "You are handsome and have good acting skills. I have wanted to work with you for a long time, but there is no suitable script. After all, I am all shooting action movies."
Zhang Guorong said enthusiastically: "Do you have it now?"
"Well, a movie about counterfeit banknote gangs."
""The True Color of Heroes" is also a counterfeit banknote gang?"
Yang Ye nodded: "Yes, I died too much that time. It's almost done, I'm not satisfied. This time I'm going to wear armor and fight again, killing all sides."
Zhang Guorong's eyes lit up: "Then I'm looking forward to it, what am I playing?"
"Male The protagonist, the two main characters, by the way, let’s find Ayu to play the heroine.”
It's quite a pity that I haven't worked seriously with top actors like Zhang Guorong and Zhang Manyu.
Yang Ye originally planned to find Zhang Manyu to cooperate next year. Since he has the chance, he can just call him over.
没一会儿，张曼钰就被喊了过来。
"A Yu, A Rong and I plan to make a movie. You can play the heroine."
Zhang Manyu said happily: "No problem, when will the filming start?"
"Second half of the year!"
"Don't you say the New Year?"
"Next year will be another movie."
"Wow, why did you suddenly treat me like this? OK? ”
“I have always loved you very much, don’t you know? ”
Zhang Manyu blushed: "Don't tease me, what kind of movie is it?"
"This movie is called "Wu Shuang". The story is quite complicated and it is hard to explain. It's waiting for "Men in Black" After the premiere, I will show you the script! "
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"The Man in Black" is the closing film of this year's Cannes Film Festival, and also held a global premiere. It has attracted film giants, media and film merchants from all over the world.
After various interviews, the film officially began to be screened.
The plot of "Man in Black" is relatively simple. The story of the film takes place in a future era. Due to the constant wars in the universe, a large number of aliens have taken refuge on Earth.
These aliens are often hidden among humans and cannot be detected by normal people.
As a special policeman who specializes in dealing with aliens, the man in black is committed to stopping the secret invasion and destruction of the earth by evil aliens.
No one knows the identity of the man in black except within the organization.
The previous part of Yang Ye's version of "The Man in Black" is similar to the original version.
The difference is that the original version is a main star and a secondary star. This version slightly aggravates Chen Long's role and becomes a double star.
It was not until the character played by Yuan Biao was getting rid of fingerprints, eliminating all the past, putting on a professional black suit, having his own code name, and starting to deal with the first alien incident, the plot changed.
The original version was that after they arrived, they found that the aliens were pregnant and were about to give birth, so they helped the aliens deliver their babies, which made them full of jokes.
But Yang Ye's version directly repaired and adjusted the scenes of Yuan Biao and Chen Long appearing in "ET Alien" and cut them in.
Because the picture is at night, the two of them are wearing sunglasses, and there are only a few long and medium shots.
So even though the two of them were much younger at that time, they could still make do with it.
"ET Alien" is Yang Ye's famous work, and many people have watched it, so when this scene appeared, people were shocked.
It turns out that the scene in "Alien" was actually the scene in "Men in Black".
It turns out that the scene in that movie was actually an Easter egg.
This scene is so interesting.
Many people were instantly killed by memories. (This chapter ends)